scope:

Applicability and Scope.

This instruction applies to all Navy afloat and expeditionary forces and the Navy shore-based establishment for operations in a high threat area to be accomplished through development and employment of defensive methods and equipment utilizing the following categories:

a. Man. Force structure to accomplish the CBRND mission.

b. Train. Training procedures (operational and medical to include casualty handling, medical treatment and prophylaxis).

c. Equip. Identify equipment quantities for individual protective equipment (IPE), collective protection equipment, contamination avoidance, contamination control and decontamination capabilities.

d. Track. Material equipment location, age and testing of individual and collective equipment as appropriate.

e. New Capabilities. Developmental efforts (Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS); science and technology; and research, development, test and evaluation).

f. Guidance. Policy; doctrine; tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs); and funding (Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES) and program objective memorandum (POM)).

g. Intelligence and Warning. Threat determination (annual threat assessment) and operational intelligence (detection, identification, warning, reporting and monitoring - contamination avoidance).

Purpose

a. To assign Navy responsibility for establishing mission requirements and implementing policy governing chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense (CBRND) capabilities in association with the Department of Defense (DoD) combating weapons of mass destruction policy, and amplify responsibilities assigned in reference (a).

b. This revision captures responsibilities not covered in the initial issuance and provides a needed update to guidance that has evolved significantly since the last revision. Major changes include:

(1) Assigns liaison responsibility for fleet introduction of new CBRND equipment to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Surface Warfare (OPNAV (N96)).

(2) Provides clarification for Navy compliance with reference (b), which establishes the Chemical, Biological Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Survivability Oversight Group (CSOG). Enclosure (1) provides this process flow chart for determining CBRN survivability.